"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Yep. We were pretty darned nice, for the times.

You neglected to mention that the internees were paid compensation and
given an apology. I don't recall that my friend Dick O'Kane got either
from the Japanese who starved and worked and beat him down to 98
pounds in one year.

Not to mention the treatment of Brit/Aussie POW's on the Burma Railway
and
Changi to mention but a couple. Some that survived were later shipped
(virtually as
freight) to Japan and put to work in the coal mines. Some survived it
all somehow.
A pretty good accounting is found in the memoirs of Sir Edward 'Weary'
Dunlop, who was a
POW doctor on the Burma Railway.

The CO